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Soccer’s Sound of Team Spirit - The New York Times

'Chants, a part of the game for fans of teams worldwide, are cataloged online by the thousands.'

For Soccer Fans, Showing Support in Song - The New York Times

'If you watch the Champions League quarterfinals Tuesday and Wednesday, you will hear soccer fans in their full-throated glory. Here is a look at popular chants among supporters of Tuesday’s home teams.'

The impulse to archive isn't restricted to dying languages or ancient relics. Sometimes you archive something simply because you love it. Fanchants.co.uk is a repository of more than 20,000 soccer fan chants from all over the world. It started as a business and remains one - but it's become a labor of love. Bob speaks with Michael Dennis, a co-founder of Fan Chants.

'It's a pretty extraordinary fieldwork and archival project; if Alan Lomax had turned to sports rather than music, this might have been the result. In fact, Fan Chants might turn out to be a parallel Global Jukebox for future students of sports, audiences, and fandom.'